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Fleta

Fleta is an anonymous medieval treatise, rather than the name of an author. This record describes the 1685 Latin edition associated with John Selden’s editorial work. It is an alternate source for the collection’s requested 1955 Selden Society edition and translation.

Alternate edition. Collection target: Book 1, chapter 23; volume 72 of the Selden Society, Richardson and Sayles edition (1955).

Fleta, seu commentarius juris Anglicani

2d ed. · 1685

Fleta, seu commentarius juris Anglicani (John Selden ed., London, H. Twyford, T. Bassett, J. Place, & S. Keble 2d ed. 1685) (1647)

Full older edition, including Book 1. Not Richardson and Sayles 1955, and no modern English translation. Exact requested edition located in catalogs but no open lawful full copy found. Title page visually verified, PDF page 4.

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Anonymous medieval work. Fleta is the title, not the author. John Selden edited the first print edition and contributed the appended dissertation. This is the second, Latin edition, not the 1955 Selden Society translation. Chapter references are preferable where pagination varies.